The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-29
The Love of Christ.

Divine services were held Sunday
afternoon in the Tabernacle as usual
After the ordinary preliminaries had
been observed, Elder Ephraim b. Nye
occupied the stand. He referred to the
Sacrament of the Lords Supper which
had just been observed, and showed
that communicates made covenants
with God every time they partook of it.
The Sacrament was instituted for the
purpose of keeping before their minds
the great labor of the Savior, and the
wonderful work he performed IN living,
sojour, ing, and Cying on the earth for
the salvation of the souls of men,
thereby maniiesting his wondrous love
for them. They covenant with God
each Sabbath by eating the bread an d
drinking the water of the Sacrament
that they do always remember him (the
SavIor), are willing to take upon them
His name, and keen His command
ments, while they ca b week break the
covenants thus entered intO;o and it is
important they should remember to
keep the commandments as well
as enter into covenant to do
so. The speaker dWelt upon the
conception of the Christian world
of the love of Christ, showing that no
cogniZance was taken of IT'S virtue and
effect before the time of His birth and
death, their idea being that His
wondrous love only reaches those
since his residence in this world,
losing sight of those who dwelt in the
flesh and died before His advent Elder
Nye then proved that the Latter-day
Saints have learned through the revela
tions of God to Joseph Smith that the
love of Christ goes further and deeper,
embracing in its grand scope every man
and woman who has ever lived upon
the earth 8 face, and offered to them
salvation through obedience to the
same laws. To substantiate this posi-
ton biblical quotations were freely
made, tracing through successive pas
sages the labors of the Savior in the
spirit world after His .ath, proving, as
shown in 1st Peter. Sd, 18th and 20th
verses. that He went to the spirits in
prison who were sometime disobedienl
when once the long suffering OF
God waited ia the days of Noah,
and by other pa: sages that II
proclaimed liberty to the captive,
and that He opened the prison.doors o
those who were bound, as is most
beautifully illustrated in the Twenty
sixth Psalm: Lift up your heads, oh
ye gates" of hell, land be We lifted up,
We everlasting doors" of the prisons of
the DAMNED, land the King of glory
shall come In. Who is that King of
glory? The Lord, strong and mighty,
He is the King of glory" proclaiming
liberty to the captive who lived and
died in wickedness upon the earth and
were suffering the vengeance of an
offended Ged in the regions of the
damned. Oh, the wonderful rejoicing
that must have taken place among those
doomed spirits when the darkness of
their prison houses were lit up by the
glory o: His eternal presence, and tie
happiness that must have filled their
souls when liberty was proclaimed by
the Ktngs through whose love and power,
and their obedience to the principles OIL
the gospel, their deliverance had been
achieved, 1t was then shown that
the love of Christ was being manifested
to the Latter-day Saints in this
age through the velations given to
Joseph Smith, aud the knowledge they
have received of His mighty plans and
purposes in this dispensation, and the
speaker closed his interesting discourse
by a powerful testimony to the di-
Yinity of the work of the gospel.